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Re: Swallow Your Blog In a Single Gulp!

http://coolmel.gaia.com — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:10:39 GMT

Brondu said: "....This was a particularly confused time as I was reading about eight spiritual teachers at once. Apparently I got so crazy about it I broke down, then broke through and wrote in my journal (speaking purely about the ego)"

this is just the perfect stuff for ExM. so work on your authenticity and make Dandy proud.

Re: Swallow Your Blog In a Single Gulp!

http://brondu.gaia.com — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:54:31 GMT

Yes! This is what I'm talking about (well I mean, I will be talking about it in a second or two). Once or twice a while back I racked my brain about how de-centering from the ego and expanding the ego/seperate-self is the same damn thing. I don't know why, but everytime I'd get it in my head (samedamnthing) I'd get it mixed up (can't be samedamnthing). This was a particularly confused time as I was reading about eight spiritual teachers at once. Apparently I got so crazy about it I broke down, then broke through and wrote in my journal (speaking purely about the ego): A DE-CENTERING FROM SEPERATENESS AND AN EXPANSION TOWARDS INCLUSIVENESS! A DIS-IDENIFICATION WITH BINDING EGOCENTRIC FORMS AND AN EXPANSION AND IDENTIFICATION WITH INCREASINGLY INCLUSIVE AND INTEGRATIVE FORMS UNTIL AT LAST IT ALL COLLAPSES INTO INFINITY!!! Somebody could've muttered 'yeah... unfold and enfold you twit.' But no. I was left alone in this. One diagram (Robert Kegan's but I sort of adapted it to fit my purpose) shows how the ego stays the same size but with increasing development the bubble the ego inhabits grows until the ego is nothing but a speck and then... goodbye speck (or, might we say the speck.. the blackness of the speck... is what we collapse into? That's what we'd say if the speck was a non-illusory self-sense [unique and gifted] ... reconciled to the inherent Brahmanic nature of reality). So, anyway, I worked it all out in my head and all is well. Applying the whole crazy schebang to blogging was brilliant though. Brian David

Re: Swallow Your Blog In a Single Gulp!

http://simplicity-seeker.gaia.com — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:17:05 GMT

coolmel said:

Be one with your blog but don’t get too attached. Blog about anything, everything, and nothing.

What can i say? I think this is great advice for me to follow. I tend to be too rigid in my life, compartmentalizing things and then being afraid to let things slide out of their arranged space (so for example, i could easily conceive of my blog is limited to a certain range of topics and then hold myself to that limitation even if i encountered something adorable and worth sharing.)

So i'll take my blog as a stepping off point for the changes i wish to see in my life. Ha! Can't hurt to try.

Swallow Your Blog In a Single Gulp!

http://coolmel.gaia.com — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:57:30 GMT

Swallow Your Blog In a Single Gulp!!!

read and discuss.